2016 Pentecost Southern Cross

Pentecost 2016

Volume 47, Issue 2

MAGAZINE OF THE DIOCESE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA

Ordained for Christ’s Church

Meet New Deacons Sather, Gonzalez & Brown

PLUS: The Case for The Episcopal Church Pioneer Priest Amongst Cubans Music Mission in Guatemala 1

Special 2016 DaySpring Camps

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From the Bishop

Ordination a Time of Delight For Church My dear friends, The ordination services in the Book of Common Prayer contain examination sections in which the bishop asks: “My brother/sister, do you believe that you are truly called by God and his Church to the life and work of a deacon (or, to this priesthood.)”

The question frames an understanding that any person ordained is already in the household of God, and directed to a specific purpose within, and for, the Church. The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology helpfully points to this deep understanding.

It states that ordination is “a liturgical action of the church by which some of its members are designated, commissioned and consecrated to public pastoral ministry.” The word itself relates to the concept of church order, and refers to the public organization of the church community. People are ordained to, and thereby established in, ministries of service and leadership in the community.” In other words, when an ordinand stands before the bishop, the whole Church is present and involved.

The Rev. Canon Michael Durning, Canon to the Ordinary, occasionally reminds me of the above in this way: “You can say ‘no’ anytime you want, but it takes a lot of people for you to say ‘yes.’” This profound remark easily summarizes the reality of the ordination examination question that regards the fact that the call is by God and the Church. Any one person in the ordination process is questioned, evaluated, and spiritually tested by many people 3

from the local congregation, to health professionals, and diocesan leadership before the church says “Yes.” The bishop is called to guard the faith, unity, and discipline of the Church. It takes the whole Church to choose people with wisdom to help make that happen.

The summer season is a time of the year in which ordinations often happen. That is no different in The Diocese of Southwest Florida. This summer will see the ordinations of three people to the Diaconate and five to the Priesthood. It is a time of delight for the Church and a season that demands our prayerful reflection. Ordinations mean that the prayers, thoughts, and challenging decisions of, at least, approximately 50 people have affirmed a call that an individual has heard from God! The Church does not take ordination lightly, because the order of the Church requires holy leadership for holy mission.

I ask all of you to take on the spiritual discipline of prayer for the priests and deacons that serve your congregations.

I ask that we remember, before anyone serve in orders for the Church, that the Church says “Yes,” so that the ordinand may say “Yes.” Before the individual being ordained can answer, “I believe I am so called”, it is the Church that has stated we believe that they are called! In the prayer book we ask God, “Grant that your Church, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, may choose suitable persons for the ministry of Word and Sacrament, and may uphold them in their work for the extension of your kingdom.” Uphold your clergy in your prayers. The “Yes” of the Church can only be maintained for the holiness of life, required for all of ordained life, by the prayers of the Church.

I ask for your prayers. X Bishop Dabney Smith is Fifth Bishop of the Diocese of Southwest Florida.

Connect Year 47 | Issue 2 | Summer 2016 First Published A.D. 1970

Bishop, The Diocese of Southwest Florida: The Rt. Rev. Dabney T. Smith Carla Odell, Executive Director for DaySpring, brings treats from the DaySpring kitchen to a meeting.

Diocesan House, A to Z The Rev. Eric Cooter, Canon for Ministry Development ecooter@episcopalswfl.org, ext. x978 The Rev. Michael Durning, Canon to the Ordinary mdurning@episcopalswfl.org, x984 Marilyn Erfourth, Receptionist merfourth@episcopalswfl.org, x987 Martha Goodwill, Parish Administration Resource mgoodwill@episcopalswfl.org, x980 The Rev. Christopher Gray, Canon for Stewardship cgray@episcopalswfl.org Barbara Leonard, Bookkeeper bleonard@episcopalswfl.org, x981 The Ven. Dennis McManis, Archdeacon dmcmanis@episcopalswfl.org, x976 Michelle Mercurio, Administrative Assistant mmercurio@episcopalswfl.org, x977 Jan Nothum, Bishop’s Administrative Assistant jnothum@episcopalswfl.org, x986 Carla Odell, Executive Director, DaySpring execdirector@dayspringfla.org, 941-776-1018 The Rev. Dr. John Palarine, Canon for Program & Youth jpalarine@episcopalswfl.org, x989 Garland Pollard, Director of Communications gpollard@episcopalswfl.org, x979 Tana Sembiante, Admin. Assistant to Canon Durning tsembiante@episcopalswfl.org, x983 Anne Vickers, Canon for Finance &Administration/CFO avickers@episcopalswfl.org, x982 4

Assisting Bishops: The Rt. Rev. J. Michael Garrison, The Rt. Rev. Barry R. Howe Editor: Garland Pollard Contributing Writers: Maggie Coleman, The Rev. Dee de Montmollin, The Rev. Canon Michael Durning, Martha Goodwill, Sarah Hill, Morris Kennedy, Slade Nash, Carla Odell, The Rev. Canon John Palarine, The Rev. David L. Segar, The Rev. Everett Walk Contributing Photographers: Bonnie Jean Durning, The Rev. Katie Churchwell, Scott Odell, Garland Pollard Advertising Inquiries: Garland Pollard, 941-556-0315 or gpollard@episcopalswfl.org Subscriptions: The Southern Cross is mailed to parishioners of the Diocese of Southwest Florida from member parish lists. Email your address to southerncross@episcopalswfl.org to subscribe or update delivery preferences.

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In this Issue Features

12 The Case for The Episcopal Church

The Rev. David L. Seger Reflects 15 DaySpring Breaks Ground

Pool and Program Center take shape

18 Ordinations at Christ Church

Three new deacons in the Diocese

Departments Briefs: Run for Office, Ordinations, New Safeguarding......................……………………..............6 Meet the Priest: The Rev. Carla McCook…………......................……………………………................ 8 Meet the Priest: The Rev. Carla McCook…………......................……………………………................ 8 Seminarian Report: Dave Wyly Heads to Virginia Theological Seminary .......................................................10 Youth: Leaders To Utah by The Rev. Dr. John Palarine..……………...…………….................. 11 DaySpring: On the Waterfront at Dayspring by Slade Nash……………………………….....…......19 History: Matthew McDuffie, Tampa Pioneer by Morris Kennedy ………………………………....... 21 Mission: Musical Offering to Guatemala by Maggie Coleman ......……...……………….....................22 Music: Restoration for Cathedral Organ..............…….....…….........................................................26 Nature: Treetop View at DaySpring by Slade Nash….................................……………………............. 30 Parish Life: Next Steps for a Priest by The Rev. Everett Walk..............................................….................. 31 Travel: Stories to Enlighten by the Rev. Dee Ann de Montmollin…………………………………... 32 Events …………….........................…………………………………...........……………….……….....32-33 Glancing Back: Bicentennial Visit of President Ford ….……………………….………............................ 34 5

Briefly

Run for Elective Office in the Diocese

PARRISH - The Nominating Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida is now seeking nominations for elective positions at the fall 2016 Annual Convention. Especially critical is the triennial election of deputies to the General Convention of The Episcopal Church.

Elective positions, including representatives to various boards and committees, are a critical part of the operations of the Diocese. Positions to be elected at the annual October convention include representatives to Diocesan Council, the “Board of Directors” for the corporation of the Diocese and members of the Standing Committee, which act as a confidential council of advice to the Bishop. The 2016 online nomination form is available on the convention page of episcopalswfl.org.

The simple form asks for a short bio and statement, as well as details on address and parish. The nominations received by the deadline August 1, 2016 will be printed in the 2016 guidebook to the Annual Convention. X 6

New, Easy Online Safeguarding Announced

PARRISHDiocesan House launched a number of changes with regard to Safeguarding, our Diocesan program for protecting all people from sexual misconduct.

These changes were presented to Diocesan Council in March and were made effective Wednesday, June 1, 2016. Safeguarding Online is the platform for all Sexual Misconduct Prevention training. Alternatively, any priest in charge of a congregation may request that the online training be presented on an “in-person” classroom basis. The online platform offers a number of advantages: including easy online of access, English, Spanish and French versions and updated statistics.

Diocesan improvements to the program include Spanish translation of Diocesan Sexual Misconduct Policy and Emphasis on the Diocesan Code of Conduct. X

Money Available from Bishop’s Appeal

PARRISH - Each year, Episcopal Charities Fund of Southwest Florida gives thousands of dollars of grants to projects that serve human needs in the Diocese of Southwest Florida.

To apply, one needs to write an application in July, to be presented to the August Council of Deacons meeting. In 2015, grants from $4,000 to $7,000 went to groups that included the St. Raphael, Ft. Myers Beach, Leap of Faith After School Program; St. Chad, Tampa, Food Pantry and Community Program; St. Edmund’s the Martyr, Arcadia, DeSoto Cares DayCenter for the homeless; St. James House of Prayer, Tampa, Cornerstone Kids After School Reading Enrichment Program; All Souls, North Ft. Myers, Food Pantry and Outreach Services and St. Wilfred, Sarasota, Beneva Christian Food Pantry Cooperative. Application information is available online at episcopalswfl.org search keyword “charities.” X

Upcoming Ordinations The Rev. Chase Ackerman, Saturday, June 18 at 11 a.m., St. John, Tampa The Rev. Christian Wood, Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m., Church of the Redeemer, Sarasota The Rev. Daniel Lemley, Friday, July 1, 7 p.m., Church of the Ascension, Clearwater The Rev. Maggie Sullivan, Saturday, July 9, 11 a.m., St. Mark, Venice The Rev. Robert Douglas, Saturday, July 16, 11 a.m., St. Mary, Bonita Springs.

Vestry Retreat

Vestry Retreat: Building Relationships & Teams On Saturday, May 7, vestry members and clergy of the Diocese came to DaySpring Episcopal center for the annual Vestry Retreat. The day included a morning and afternoon of training sessions and discussions, as well as lunch in the Curry Hall Dining Room and a mid-day service at DaySpring’s Outdoor Chapel. Guests also walked trails and visited the labyrinth, St. Thomas Chapel and Canopy Walk.

The 164 attendees at Vestry Retreat represented 33 congregations in the Diocese. The vestries heard about the Episcopal Church Foundation Vital Teams 101 curriculum, which assists vestries in building strong relationships. Speakers from ECF were Donald V. Romanik President, and Ronald C. Byrd, Lead Consultant for Vital Teams. Basics included how to build relationships through spiritual practices, how to run a good meeting, and how to effectively create goals and accountability.

The day also included speakers from

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Clockwise from top: Bishop Smith at noonday service.

Below top: The Rev. Ronald Byrd and Donald Romanik from Episcopal Church Foundation. Bottom: Wendy Martucci from St. Margaret of Scotland on the Canopy Walk. Bottom left: part of the vestry of St. James House of Prayer including Idelia Phillips, Arlene Aranha and Ellenor Moncrief on the nature walk in front of St. Thomas Chapel.

Diocesan House, including Bishop Dabney Smith.

Resources from the day are posted online; go to episcopalswfl.org and use search keyword “vestry” for resources from the 2016 Vestry Retreat, as well as previous years. X

Meet the Priest

The Rev. Carla McCook, St. Margaret’s, Sarasota Q: What is your first memory of The Episcopal Church?

A: I discovered the Episcopal Church while a freshman at Flagler College, St. Augustine. The first Sunday I attended with a group of friends who were Episcopalians. After the dismissal I had so many questions about why everyone wore a robe, why the use of bells and incense and crosses, why did we do “exercises” during church (standing, kneeling, sitting).

I also knew somehow I’d come home to a church where I’d fit in.

Q: Was there anything in particular that confirmed your call to become a priest?

A: My parents’ support of my call to ordained ministry. I was raised in a traditional, Southern Baptist home, and so taught that women were not to be ordained ministers. My parents’ change of heart and mind was a powerful moment of confirmation for me.

Q: In one of your Facebook posts, you reminded that Jesus’ church at most had an average Sunday attendance of 70, and he sent them out, two by two. What does that mean for us?

A: I think we can learn much from this gospel narrative. First, a few [in number] were sent and many came to believe. We can get stuck in the numbers game and when we do we’ve moved our eyes off of Jesus and put our focus on other things.

Counting the numbers in pews on a Sunday isn’t the numbers that are always useful. If we must count numbers, then I think the greater count is how many of us are going out and sharing the Good 8

Shane and Carla just before they left Wisconsin. From left, their children are Sean, Madeline and Kristin.

News of Jesus with others in word and deed after the dismissal throughout our week. Secondly, Jesus sent them in pairs.

We are sent to serve in Christ’s name and to do so in community. Lastly, they were sent 2x2 - in community, not alone. We’re called and sent in Christian fellowship and community to draw others to the reconciling love of God.

Q: How has your husband Shane settled into being back in Florida?

A: My husband and children haven’t arrived in Florida yet. Wisconsin schools do not end until June 8 and our son graduates June 11. We are all looking forward to moving down after his graduation and getting settled in to our new home in Sarasota. X

Q: What do you see as the potential at St. Margaret’s?

A: The church has great potential to grow in our visibility, life and work of the community that is building up around us. The congregation is planted in the middle of one of the largest growing areas of Sarasota. The task before us is to change part of our culture of being a destination church and becoming a neighborhood church: living, serving and working among the community growing around us.

The Rev. Carla McCook was Bishop’s Assistant for Christian Formation in the Diocese of Milwaukee. While there, she published the Living Compass curriculm for camp and Vacation Bible School, and served on the Standing Committee. She will replace The Rev. Everett Walk, the church’s longtime rector. She was rector of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Greendale, Wisconsin and before that asssistant rector of St. Paul’s in Salem, Va. and St. Alban’s, Annandale, Va., where she began as a seminarian.

Transitions Churchwell New Canon for Community Formation at Cathedral

ST. PETERSBURG - Katie Churchwell has joined the Cathedral Church of St. Peter as Canon for Community Formation.

The Rev. Churchwell, a native of Arizona who grew up “amid the stark beauty of the desert,” is a religious studies graduate of Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

In seminary, she earned a Masters of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary. She served as an Associate Rector at a parish in the Houston, Texas area since 2013.

This June, she began serving at The Cathedral Church of St. Peter in downtown St. Petersburg as the Canon for

Churchwell at Diocesan House, DaySpring

Community Formation. There, she will be bringing the love of Jesus beyond the walls of the Cathedral, building relationships in the community, integrating the Cathedral into downtown life, and exploring new

ways to bring the church and love of God to those who won’t ever walk through the doors of a church.

“If we believe that Jesus is truly the way, the truth and the life,” says Churchwell, “how do you say that to people and show that to people?”

Churchwell’s husband Logan has worked on Capitol Hill and telecommutes.

They have a daughter Addison, a son Crawford, and a Yorkie named Otley. She is an avid coffee drinker, loves to read and play with her children, and takes pleasure in the beauty of the outdoors. She looks forward to extending the church beyond the walls of the Cathedral; just a few weeks in, she was getting the parish involved in a Williams Park cleanup and hopes to involve the Cathedral in a Saturday morning market.

“Really, what we want is for people to know and express Jesus in their lives,” said Churchwell.” X

Baseball With the Bishop

Baseball With the Bishop 2015

Friday, Sept. 23 Rays vs. Red Sox Bring Your Parish!

To order tickets and for info: Rays Representative Jeane Drury 727-342-5719 or jdrury@raysbaseball.com raysbaseball.com 888-FAN-RAYS 9

A portion of each ticket sold will benefit the Episcopal Charities Fund.

Tickets are subject to availability. Discounted ticket price not available after the deadline.

Seminarian Report

David Wyly, Postulant, Learns to Listen to God DAVID WYLY, ST. Hilary’s postulant

for holy orders, is learning to listen to God. David, baptized as an Episcopalian at age three months over 42 years ago, spent his childhood involved in the church. By his own admission, he moved away from the church after college until his mid-thirties.

Nadine Wyly, David’s wife, grew up in St. Petersburg. Her family did not attend church regularly, but she always enjoyed tagging along with her friends to their youth groups. When they married, not only did their relationship with each other develop, they both discovered a growing relationship to God. “Faith has played a huge role in my life. When you listen closely, God is good,” says Nadine, who counts Cursillo as integral to their marriage and roles as parents. “My marriage is amazing; David is not only my husband but my best friend.”

They are raising six children, and they sometimes use prayer to calm and comfort them. The eldest boys, James and Ethan, are active acolytes; middle girls Samantha and Reagan sing in the children’s choir.

Their youngest are year-old twins Jackson and Jillian. In any spare time, Nadine and David both enjoy the gym and 5K races.

Nadine, a Pinterest fan, loves to sew; everything from quilts to dresses for her girls.

She also enjoys refurbishing furniture.

External circumstances brought the Wyly family to this area, and only now, in retrospect, does Wyly see that the move involved the hand of God. David and Nadine settled in Cape Coral, and their daughter Samantha was baptized at Epiphany. But there, they didn’t feel that they had found their spiritual home. One 10

The Wyly family before they head up to Alexandria. In the first row are Reagan and Samantha. The second row is James, Nadine, Jillian, Jackson, David and Ethan.

Sunday in 2008, they decided to try “that church across the bridge” and discovered St. Hilary’s. They were impressed with the number of young children they saw at church, but with life being busy, they didn’t return for a few Sundays. An email from one of the youth leaders inviting them to an all-parish breakfast inspired them to return, and they have been at St. Hillary ever since.

David works in the medical field; Nadine has been home, taking care of and raising their six children; a challenging task, but one she would not change.

“I always used to pray for patience with the kids. But the Lord has a great sense of humor and he blessed us with twins,” says Nadine. “I try just to love and nurture my kids and guide them to be the best adults just as my parents did for me.”

David had begun the discernment process, but it was helping administer the sacrament during a busy Eucharistic service that reinforced God’s calling.

“I realized I wanted to serve the faith community.”

Big changes are in store. David has been accepted into the Virginia Theologi-

cal Seminary and begins in August 2016.

“It has been a process,” says David, “but I feel like I’m able to listen to God, have conversations with God, and follow what He has been calling me to do.”

Nadine supports his calling, but, being a mother, is also concerned. “The move will have a large impact on our financial life. I’m worried about providing the sports and extra activities that we have been able to allow our children to do. Samantha dances ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical and hip hop, along with playing the piano and being a Girl Scout. Reagan also dances tap, ballet and lyrical. Ethan and James do karate.”

Nadine currently supervises the nursery at St. Hilary; under her purview, it’s become a colorful, happy place for the church’s little ones. “My goal with this Ministry was to allow churchgoers to focus on worship rather than worrying about their children.

To give both a warm and welcoming feeling to the parents, and also make the children comfortable as new visitors.”

David believes there are two tracks for those sharing their Faith. The first is more traditional, and based on a bricks-andmortar, geographic location. The second, parallel track is non-traditional and draws together a worshipping community in a location like a coffee shop. He believes a coffee shop ministry, built as a retail coffee shop, would attract this new group.

As they face the unknown, it is faith that sustains the Wyly’s on their spiritual journey. They have yet to find housing in Northern Virginia, and Nadine is unsure if and where she will find work.

“We’ve realized that there are things we cannot control,” says David. “We’ve learned to let go and trust in God’s time, and to have faith.” X The Wyly’s sending church is collecting donations for seminary. At St. Hilary’s Episcopal Church, 5011 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33901 11

Youth

Leaders Making a Difference

By The Rev. Canon John Palarine Canon for Program & Youth PARRISH - Four youth and two adults formed a team to help the Episcopal Diocese of Utah create their first New Beginnings on May 13-15, 2016. It was a great weekend. Our youth are sharing God’s love and New Beginnings across the borders and making a difference in the world.

Our Diocese also helped Diocese of Central Florida restart their Happening program with a team of nine youths and two adults from this Diocese this past April. We rejoice in the many teen leaders that we have in this Diocese and how they share the Good News of Christ.

We also will be sending 3 youth and two adults to the National Happening Leadership Conference, July 7-10, 2016 at Camp Weed in the Diocese of Florida.

Both of these programs touch lives and raise up leaders for our church, community and the world.

The next New Beginnings is Nov. 11-

From left, The Rev. Canon Palarine in front of the Salt Lake City Cathedral, with Carly Fronckowiak, Donald White, Katie Arp and Devon Shank. First row, Morgan Toth with Cathedral Dean Rick Lawson.

13 and Happening is December 2-4, 2016. Don’t miss this opportunity for young people in your congregation. X See page 32 for full calendar of youth events in the Diocese. Questions? Ideas?

Contact The Rev. John Palarine at 941556-0315 or jpalarine@episcopalswfl.org.

Brazil Missioner in Ponce With Karen Carroll

Rachel Schnabel, diocesan missioner in Brazil, was in Ponce, Puerto Rico in May to attend the Global Episcopal Mission Conference. She is a former DaySpring camp counselor. At center is Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Karen Carroll of our Dominican Development Group.

Stained glass this page, Holy Innocents’, Valrico. Page 14 stained glass, Cathedral Church of St. Peter, St. Petersburg.

Page 15, St. Boniface, Sarasota.

The Case for The Episcopal Church

By The Rev. David L. Seger

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THE FEAST OF Pentecost, marking speaking Anglicans in general in the one historical life of the Church since

the end of Easter Season, is often called the birthday of the Church. Before the coming of the Spirit there were only followers of Jesus, but after the Spirit’s descent they were joined to Christ and became one Body with Him, children of God by the power of the Holy Spirit.

From this moment the Church started to spread throughout the world. The gift of the Spirit incorporated believers into Christ empowering them for their own particular ministry. There are many gifts the Apostle Paul tells us but all are for the common good, the building up of the Church of God. Jesus intended that the One Spirit unite all of his followers in One Body.

But here we are divided into many, sometimes competing, denominations.

As we approach Pentecost I would like to suggest that there is a particular gift that has been given to The Episcopal Church. That gift does not make us the whole Church or the “best” Church or, obviously, the only true Church. But the Spirit has gifted us with a special quality that enables us to make a contribution to the whole of Christ’s Church.

William Temple, the 98th Archbishop of Canterbury (1942-44) wrote: “Our special character and, as we believe, our peculiar contribution to the Universal Church arises from the fact that, owing to historical circumstances, we have been enabled to combine in one fellowship the traditional faith and order of the catholic Church with that immediacy of approach to God through Christ to which the evangelical churches especially bear witness and freedom of intellectual inquiry, whereby the correlation of the Christian revelation and advancing knowledge is constantly effected.“ The last 50 years have not been kind to Episcopalians nor to English13

United Kingdom, Canada, or Australia. It seems we have constantly been in conflict with ourselves over liturgical renewal, hymnody, polity, and human sexuality. The result being a loss of vitality, identity and purpose, as well as a loss in membership. However, there has been a slight reversal over the last three years as our Church seeks to find our way into the future God has for us. I am finding that we are becoming more effective witnesses to Jesus and the Gospel, out of a sense of being uniquely gifted by the Spirit for a special role in this world.

There are people out there waiting for what we can offer them.

Our particular gifts come out of our particular history, the way that the Reformation came to England and the way in which the Church of England tried to be faithful in its particular historical circumstances. Looking back, I see the hand of God in the events of this history. Not everything that happened was for the best, but God made something wonderful to develop out of those particular events and we are heirs of that family history. Along the lines of Archbishop Temple’s statement, our particular gift seems to be three-fold.

The first reason has to do with the word “catholic.” Our Church has preserved the traditional faith and structure of the church catholic. This is who we are. Our religion is expressed through our catholic structure. Bishops, priests, deacons, Baptism and the Eucharistic liturgy, visits by the Bishop for Confirmation, the Sacrament of Marriage, daily Morning and Evening Prayer, keeping the feasts and fasts of the Church year—these are the marks of our identity as a community that lives in conscious continuity with the

its earliest days. These are the badges of our self-awareness.

What are the marks of an Episcopalian? It is someone who is at Eucharist on Sundays and Holy Days, someone whose devotional life is centered on the Book of Common Prayer and its daily round of prayers. It is someone who acknowledges the authority of the Bishop and who is grateful for the gift of priesthood out of which Christ bestows on the Church the sacramental graces of the Holy Spirit.

An Episcopalian is someone who worships God in a liturgical way—an ordered way of worship in conscious continuity with the historical Church.

Liturgical means participatory, learning your part so that you can take your place in the public drama of worship.

It means not to fret that visitors cannot immediately understand what we are doing. Why should they? What we do is rich and multi-layered. One has to be initiated into it. An Episcopalian is one who does not feel that she/he has to apologize about things like keeping Lent, going to church in the middle of the week when a feast day falls on it, being accountable to a wider group than the local congregation. These are the badges of our distinctiveness. We are meant to delight in them—like Jewish persons who eat kosher since it is the way of praising God and being a part of that historic faith.

Being catholic means to delight in the fact that we inherit a way of life. We do not vote in our congregation about a code of conduct or articles of faith.

They are already there in our tradition.

The catholic order and structure witness to us that we are one with the one life of the Church, as it has existed in this world since the days of Jesus. Our

personal life is grounded in a sacramental life that is larger than we are. We do not make it up, but share in a religion already there—the life of Jesus as taught and mediated by the historic Church.

The second reason has to do with a quality that we can only call evangelical. Despite what some say, The Episcopal Church and its members delight in evangelical prerogatives. The easiest way to define evangelism is to talk about the immediacy of a personal relationship with Jesus. Each person for herself or himself is expected and privileged to know Jesus personally and intimately. There is no sense of being separated from Jesus by any structure or person having to come to Jesus through someone else or something else. There is no sense of a faith that is remote or impersonal. A relationship with Jesus is meant to be direct, life changing, a matter of daily living. The Bible is an owned book for all, a manual for daily prayer and life, and a place to encounter Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit.

There is a directness of apprehension in Scripture—a genuine encounter with God. Worship is to be warm and wholehearted—the response of those whose lives are touched by Jesus.

The gift of The Episcopal Church is the combination of both evangelical and catholic in one body. This is not to say that any congregation embodies this perfectly. Some are more evangelical, some more catholic. Yet, the ideal is the combination: the warmth of evangelical experience poured into and expressed through catholic order, the sacramental life nurturing a close personal relationship with Jesus. Those who want to take the personal side of religion in a greater direction of individual liberty will probably want a purely evangelical church with little structure in worship 14

This is not to say that we have it right, or that we are the only ones trying for this combination. There needs, in fact, to be a renewal of both the evangelical and the catholic in modern Anglicanism. and much congregational freedom to choose its own way.

Those who want to take the corporate side of religion in a greater direction of institutional solidarity will want to affiliate with the Roman Catholic Church, where there is more of a sense of hierarchical authority and less congregational freedom.

Our way as Episcopalians is to try not to diminish what it means either to be a catholic in essentials nor an evangelical in essentials, but to express the evangelical life in a catholic order, to express the catholic faith with evangelical immediacy. This is not to say that we have it right, or that we are the only ones trying for this combination.

There needs, in fact, to be a renewal of both the evangelical and the catholic in modern Anglicanism. We are being challenged on the evangelical side by

many evangelical denominations and within our Church by African evangelical Anglicans. They are reminding us of something we have forgotten: it is still possible to be excited about Jesus and the Gospel and the power available in Christ to renew our lives. That excitement makes converts—and making converts is what evangelism is all about.

Episcopalians need an evangelical renewal—to recover an excitement about the Gospel and to fall in love with Jesus.

We also need a renewal of the catholic element in our life. The great strength of Catholicism has always been spirituality—the nurture and development of a solid Christian character and the deep Spirit-led life, based on the sacraments and the spiritual prayer disciplines. The ravages of individualism and worldliness need to be countered by a strong corporate sense of spiritual discipline rooted in the long history of faith and practice in the Catholic Church. The Episcopal Church at its best combines these two elements in a constructive and exciting way. There is every reason to suppose that we can find our way forward, if we are willing to let the Spirit blow again through this Church and renew us as catholic and evangelical.

The third point in making a case for The Episcopal Church is freedom of intellectual inquiry—a willingness to wrestle with the ideas of the world in which we find ourselves, to take seriously the best thought of the age, to respond to it and engage it out of a convinced Christian commitment. Historically The Episcopal Church has provided fresh open spaces and encouragement for this kind of enterprise. Some Christians do not have much interest in a serious engagement with modern thought. They want an unchanging religion with few ambiguities.

They do not want to rethink their

faith in the light of new ideas or research. At some risk of over simplifying this is what we call fundamentalism—a reaction against what is modern, an attempt to keep Christian thinking within narrow, well-worn channels. You can be a catholic fundamentalist or an evangelical fundamentalist.

Someone who clings to the Pope as infallibly true in what he teaches is a fundamentalist as much as someone who clings to the Bible as interpreted a century ago as infallibly true. Many fundamentalists are very good people and excellent Christians, but this is not what it means to be an Episcopalian.

But just because we are not fundamentalists does not mean that we simply accept modern thought. For the last 40 years or so that has been one of our chief problems. Episcopalians have been so afraid of being thought of as fundamentalists that we have fallen into the opposite trap and have assimilated our thinking to that of the modern world. Again, at the risk of over simplifying, we usually associate this failing with the word “liberalism” that has come to stand for a kind of sell-out to the modern secular world. Many people are coming to see these days that liberalism has infected the Church and crippled both its catholic life and its evangelical experience. In the name of openness and inclusiveness, it has betrayed the Church by giving up what is distinctively Christian and offering to the world only what it will accept on its own terms.

Anglicanism has not done this in the past. The greatest Anglican and Episcopalian thinkers have always been those who have taken the core of their Christian belief from the ancient, unified tradition of the Church. Out of this conviction and commitment they have then wrestled with the best of modern thought, seeking to render the faith un15

derstandable to modern people, not acceptable. I am hopeful that a real renewal is coming to The Episcopal Church, but it will not come from the old liberalism.

It will not come from the catholic or the evangelical variety of fundamentalism, either. If it comes, it will come from a recovery of our roots—a fresh appreciation of how to be catholic, evangelical, and open to serious thinking, all at the same time.

As Episcopalians, we are heirs to the full life of the historic Church from the days of the apostles. Our particular shape comes from the history of the Church of England, but our life is the one life Christ imparted by the Holy Spirit and needs

It means not to fret that visitors cannot immediately understand what we are doing. Why should they? What we do is rich and multi-layered.

to be shared with a world that is increasingly estranged from Jesus. Evangelicals, both within our Church and outside it, are showing us that when people are excited about Jesus and the gospel, the Spirit is present with power and people are converted to Christ. That is something we have known in our past; Jesus is first and people must be told about him.

There is also a renewed interest in our society in the inner life, as the emptiness of materialism is more and more perceived.

Our catholic heritage is filled with wisdom about the nurture and growth of the Spiritual life. We Episcopalians are heirs to that wisdom. If we can recover evangelical experience and catholic discipline—which is our own tradition and roots—we will be able again to engage the best in modern thought, and have a contribution to make to the Church and the world, that is God’s own and in which he has placed us as a sign of his kingdom.

In this Pentecost, I think we as Episcopalians should have a sense of joy at the richness of our heritage and at the glorious calling we have in the Church of God. I praise God that I am an Episcopalian; God has used us in the past and will in the future if we let him, if we faithfully use the gifts he has given us. X About the Author: The Rev. David L. Seger, Canon to the Ordinary for 17 years in the Diocese of Northern Indiana, served this spring as Bishop’s Vicar of St. Boniface, Sarasota. In addition to St. Boniface, he has served three interim ministries for a total of five years in both Baton Rouge, Louisana, and Rapid City, South Dakota, where he now lives with his wife. The Rev. Canon John Schramm, retired priest of the Northern Indiana, helped to clarify these thoughts and reflections.

DaySpring Breaks Ground PARRISH

- OVER 150 clergy

and lay leaders of the Diocese of Southwest Florida gathered Tuesday, March 1 with builders and architects to break ground for a new Program Center and pool complex at DaySpring Episcopal Center.

The 12,500-square-foot center will serve as DaySpring’s primary facility for youth and adult programs, art and music, recreation activities, retreats, teaching and worship.

The new program center replaces an aging portable building and represents the first of a multiphase, 10-year DaySpring master development plan initiated in 2014. X Photos from the March Groundbreaking. At top, The Rev. Canon Michael Durning assists Bishop Smith with the liturgy. Above, guests gathered in the shade as it was an unusually bright day. Facing page clockwise from top, the design, construction and crew with Diocesan staff. Joan Kline and Michael Kline. Kline is the Chair of the DaySpring Development Committee. At bottom right, Kline, co-chair Lana Fitzgerald, Standing Commitee President Kevin Fitzgerald and DaySpring Executive Director Carla Odell with Bishop Smith. Bottom left, Mary Wallis Smith and Sarah Hill, representing DaySpring Development Committee and Diocesan Altar Guild at a reception back at Diocesan House. Middle right, the Rev. Dr. John Palarine takes a hint from Bishop Smith. Palarine, as Canon for Program and Youth, supervises youth and adult programming at DaySpring and is now resident clergy on campus.

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DaySpring Update In Aerial Photos

View from the air shows a Stonehenge-like fire pit.

December 2015 April 2016

DaySpring Program Center Pictured here, the beginnings December 2015 of digging footings for the slab of the Program Center.

May 2016

DaySpring Program Center April 2016

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DaySpring Program Center May 2016

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By May, the slab had been covered by an initial set of tie beams. At presstime, the roof is complete.

The building will be complete by the end of the year.

Ordinations at Christ Church

Pictured here, a contingent from St. Monica came up for the ordination.

At center is The Rev. Dr. Gonzalez with wife Esther and granddaughter.

BY GARLAND POLLARD BRADENTON - Bishop Dabney T. Smith ordained three new deacons in The Diocese of Southwest Florida on Saturday, June 4, 2016 at Christ Church.

In his sermon, Bishop Smith said that an ordination is always a critical time for the church, when the “church itself is purposefully re-energized.”

“The joy of an ordination service is when you see the church empowered once again,” said Smith.

At a ceremony at Christ Church, Bishop Smith ordained three as Episcopal deacons in a service that included the laying on of hands. The three new deacons are Deborah Bennett Brown, Richard Gonzalez and Jerry Earl Sather.

Each of the three ordained has a unique calling and mission outside of their parish. Brown works with women in the correctional system, Gonzalez works with the underserved as a pediatrician and Sather is currently an Air Force chaplain.

The three are exemplars of what deacons need to be, namely the face of Christ in the world as it is.

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said Smith. Recognizing the helpless is more than just identifying those who are poor, but those who are also helpless in other areas. “One can be hungry for righteousness,” said Smith. “Who isn’t?”

The church defines three distinct orders of ordained ministry; bishops, priests and deacons. In Southwest Florida there are 31 active deacons and 16 active/retired deacons. The diaconate reports directly to the bishop, though they serve within particular parishes. All priests and bishops are first ordained as deacons.

At the time of ordination, Smith spoke of the newly ordained as jars of clay, literally walking treasures of God’s mercy. The reference was to Luke 12: 35-38, where Jesus speaks of the blessed slaves “whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them.”

“God has shown loving creative light in our darkened, helpless hearts,” said Smith.

“Today, the church is empowered, not powerful.” X

Clockwise from top, Brown ordained

by Bishop Smith as The Rev. Fredrick Robinson, litanist, holds the liturgy. Top right, Bishop Smith and the Rev. Alexander Andujar of Christ Church. Below, Brown signs the oath from The Rev. Michael Durning, as husband the Rev. Dewey Brown looks on. Right, Smith censing the altar.

Above, the three ordinands at prayer.

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Meet the New Deacons DEBORAH B. BROWN is a member of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Dade City, where her husband, The Rev. Dewey E. Brown Jr. is rector. Brown telecommutes daily to her job as a paralegal for a large, multinational law firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

She has two grown daughters and five grandchildren. Debi has been a volunteer with Kairos Prison Ministry for 20 years, having volunteered in prisons in Virginia, North Carolina, New York and now Florida. Her diaconal ministry will be focused on Hernando Correctional Institution for Women in Brooksville, where she volunteers with Kairos, serves weekly as a mentor to inmates and occasionally serves as an instructor for classes in character development.

RICHARD GONZALEZ a pediatrician in Naples, was born in Tapaste, Cuba in 1954. He moved to the United States in

1962. He grew up Roman Catholic andwas received in The Episcopal Church four years ago. Since he was a young boy, Richard has felt God’s call to ordination.

As a pediatrician, he works in a community health center providing medical care to the medically underserved in our area.

He and his wife Esther have two adult children, Michael and Michelle, and a granddaughter, Alice.

JERRY EARL SATHER is a United

States Air Force chaplain currently serving

as the senior chaplain at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. He leads a team of eight in providing religious support to more than 9,000 service members, civilians and family members at the only space launch facility on the West coast. Prior to his Air Force career, Chaplain Sather served as a pastor of Nazarene and Methodist churches in New Jersey and was a chaplain in the Army Reserve. Chaplain Sather’s association with the Diocese of Southwest Florida began in 2012 when he was assigned as the Command Chaplain for Special Operations Command Central at MacDill Air Force Base, where he was active in the ministries of St Mark’s and St. Andrew’s. Chaplain Sather is grateful for the opportunity to continue to serve our country as an Air Force Chaplain endorsed by the Episcopal Church. Chaplain Sather has been married to his wife Annette of Wimbledon, England for 33 years and they have three adult children. X

Feel Called to the Diaconate?

The Commission on Ministry, led by the Rev. Dr. Ellen Sloan, shepherds ordinands in the Diocese of Southwest Florida. Those who are interested in either priestly or diaconal ordination should first talk to their parish priest, as the first “call” to any ministry is through the immediate parish.

There are resources for those interested in ordained ministry including the newly published booklet The Discernment Journey. The book is a manual of guidelines, policies and procedures that has been designed to assist individuals exploring a sense of call to ordained ministry.

The Diocese also offers a Vocation Information Dinner on Nov. 8, where those interested in the ordained ministry can find out more about the process. The information dinner is free, and will be held at DaySpring Episcopal Center.

To make a reservation, contact Marilyn Erfourth by email at merfourth@episcopalswfl.org. The manual and contact information for the Commission on Ministry are at episcopalswfl.org, keyword “ordination.” X 21

DaySpring

On the Waterfront

Getting visitors out on the water is part of the fun of DaySpring. Slade Nash gives paddle options from our protected cove along the Manatee River.

ONE OF THE great activities at DaySpring is to venture out in a canoe or kayak. Our boat launch sits at what is called “Red Fish Point” located 14 miles from the mouth of the Manatee River at marker 17.

The water here is brackish. It is a mixture of fresh water coming down from inland tributaries and saltwater coming up from the Gulf of Mexico.

The Manatee is actually 36 miles long and originates in the northeastern corner of Manatee County and flows down to the Gulf of Mexico at

Make Your Reservation DaySpring has guest houses, cabins, and dormitories for events. Meals included. Contact DaySpring at 941-776-1018 or reservations@dayspringfla.org.

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the southeastern edge of Tampa Bay. We will often see saltwater marine life such as manatees, mullet, redfish, and even dolphin swimming here around our cove.

We are blessed to have a big beautiful cove right off the Manatee River. This is the perfect place to try out canoeing for the first time or just to paddle out and relax because it is protected from boat traffic and is just about 3-5 feet deep.

The Manatee River is much deeper at 15-20 feet and larger crafts can be seen going up and down the river.

The river also feeds the two ponds on our property. One you may have noticed right next to Curry Hall and the other sits adjacent to The Hall House. Both ponds rise and fall with the tides of the river. Unfortunately neither the pond nor the cove can be used for swimming because of the sharp clam beds that have developed.

However with shoes, a good hat, and plenty of sunscreen fun can be had here on the river.

DaySpring staff will help get you outfitted with a proper fitting life jacket and paddle. We can even give you some good boating instructions and tips to help you get properly launched

Canoes on the waterfront at DaySpring.

for your adventure. We can accommodate from just one paddler to groups of up to 35 people at once on the water.

So if your group is visiting DaySpring, don’t forget to plan an outing on the water. It won’t be one you will soon forget! X Slade Nash is Guest Services Director for DaySpring.

Garden

Farm to DaySpring Table DaySpring Executive Director Carla Odell tells of the new garden at DaySpring, an experiment at bringing “farm to table” to the Curry Hall dining room.

IF YOU’RE EVER at DaySpring on the southeast part of the property and see a man toiling in the field, stop and say “hi” to Scott Odell. He loves to discuss the garden and will really welcome a break from weeding. Last year, Scott came up with the idea to make use of the empty yard that came with the 2015 purchase of the adjacent house now used by Canon for Program and Youth, the Rev. Dr. John Palarine. As the property was adjacent to the Director’s House, Scott took on the task of planting a vegetable garden with the intent of growing food to be used by the kitchen for DaySpring meals. Last summer and fall was spent cutting down the wild vegetation that had taken over the lot, and trying a few plants to get started.

Because the lot had been so vacant for so long, the task to bring it back to being useable was monumental. It even required using the DaySpring tractor to get rid of the bigger weeds. Finally, the land was tilled and seeds and vegetables were ready to plant. Then he found that he had to deal with raccoons, armadillos, squirrels and bugs of all types. In addition to the predators, summer rains washed out the seeds, and parts of the lot kept flooding. One of the vegetables that did thrive, though, was okra. The okra plants grew so big that it took an ax to cut them down when they finished producing. None of the first plantings of vegetables produced enough to furnish the kitchens of DaySpring.

This year, though, is a different story.

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Green tomatoes at the garden at DaySpring. Photo by Scott Odell.

Scott has vastly improved the soil and plantings and has taken on the critters.

So far this spring, DaySpring guests have enjoyed two different types of squash, (patty pan and deliceta), zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and eggplant. The corn at presstime had small ears and the watermelon, okra, beans and edamame were progressing. Hopefully, he can come up with a way to keep the raccoons from eating the corn. To add to the aesthetic appeal, he has also planted wildflowers and sunflowers, which have attracted butterflies and honey bees.

In addition, “Farmer” Scott has peppers, potatoes, squash, pomegranates, papayas and blueberries planted in earth boxes on the back porch of the Director’s House. Scott has furnished all the seeds and plantings and has donated all his labor

to make this a very successful garden for DaySpring. X

Meals at DaySpring The Dining Room at Curry Hall is open daily for overnight guests.

Accommodations at DaySpring are American Plan, with three meals included (dinner the night of arrival, breakfast and lunch).

In addition, day visitors can purchase breakfast, lunch and dinner individually, which are $8, $10 and $15 respectively. All meals are served buffet style.and include salad, fruit bars and dessert.

History

Matthew McDuffie, Tampa Pioneer Morris Kennedy tells of a priest, born into slavery, who helped to evangelize Tampa’s Cuban community.

TAMPA — AS St. James House of Prayer members line up for coffee on Sunday, we pass a gallery of former parish priests, the first being The Rev. Matthew McDuffie. Photographed as he graduated from seminary in 1889, Fr. McDuffie appears somber, perhaps a bit apprehensive — no surprise, given all he had endured.

Born into slavery on April 4, 1860, in Sumter, S. C., his parents, Lucy and Michael McDuffie, likely took their surname from U.S. Senator George McDuffie, an ardent defender of slavery with a plantation in the area.

On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops attacked nearby Ft. Sumter, S.C. The child of bondage took his first steps amid the Civil War. At war’s end, the McDuffies joined four million other freed slaves setting out to build new lives. Five-year-old Matthew’s job was to learn, and by 1870, census records show, he knew how to read and write.

Emancipation came at a steep price. Unrepentant Confederates turned to lynching and Klan terror to regain power. In 1877, federal authorities abandoned Reconstruction. Old South leaders and allies took over, imposing rigid segregation, a new form of bondage. McDuffie came of age during this persecution.

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Here, a Bard College archive class photo. Archivist Helene Tieger researched information on McDuffie’s college days. Other information was gathered by Sue Tritschler of St. Andrew, Tampa. Below, church historian Herman Monroe, who grew up at St. James, did groundbreaking work on Matthew McDuffie.

He is pictured at the grave of McDuffie, in an archival photo.

Monroe, who researched the history of St. James Church, found that McDuffie was enrolled at St. Mary’s Parochial School, operated by the Rev. Benjamin B. Babbitt, an intriguing figure in the young man’s life.

The son of a Union Army major killed in battle, Babbitt was a priest and school principal in Massachusetts. In continued, page 26

1871, he ventured south to help with Reconstruction, teaching physics at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, S.C. He became faculty chairman, leading a successful fight to integrate the university. Family history and college records say he also was chaplain to the local U.S. Army troops; founded four churches; served as rector of one, and started a school for black children.

Did this idealistic priest see promise in McDuffie and mentor him? It seems plausible. What we know is that in 1884 McDuffie went north to the seminary at St. Stephen’s (now Bard College), in New York -- one of four black students who integrated the school.

St. Stephen’s graduate John Chanler (CQ) White, of South Carolina, recalled those pioneering black students in an interview around 1950: “I found that they were not very cordially received by the students, who kept aloof from them. They were placed at a special table in the dining hall and were strictly left out. None of the students took to them in a social way,’’ he said.

“I could not understand the cold attitude … and determined to make their lot a little happier if I could. …

I visited them in their rooms and paid special attention to them … showing the rest of the students that I, a southerner, made no difference and could companion with them.

“The result was that the rest of the students took them right up and their life afterwards was happy and congenial,’’ White said. “They were really fine men. … One of them, Matthew McDuffie, founded and built up the largest colored church in the country.’’

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By 1893, St. James boasted 177 baptized members and operated the only parochial school in the jurisdiction. owners had moved their businesses to Key West to escape labor strife and the revolt. Their workers brought unions and Cuba Libre with them, sending money home to support independence. In 1886, a suspicious fire, possibly set by Spanish spies, devastated the Key West cigar industry.

In 1890, the church dispatched McDuffie to Key West to head St. Alban’s Mission, leading services in the hospital and jail.

Tampa businessmen had been wooing factory owners to relocate, promising labor peace -- the fire sealed the deal. Between 1880 and 1890 Tampa’s population jumped from 720 to 15,839. Robert P. Ingalls chronicles this in Urban Vigilantes in the New South, Tampa, 1882-1936.

Thousands of cigar workers arrived, bringing new customs and political views. Strikes and partisan clashes over Cuban independence occurred. In 1887, business leaders organized vigilantes who kidnapped union leaders and shipped them out of town. Thus began decades of anti-union repression.

The new immigrants included many black Episcopalians who were barred from white churches by segregation. In 1890, they organized their own congregation, meeting in members’ homes, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, and elsewhere. McDuffie was called to lead them.

On May 12, 1892, he married

Martha Watkins in Tampa. In August, 1892, he helped build the first church, then a rectory and parochial school that opened with 40 students and two teachers. In The Sound of the Bells, Joseph Cushman Jr. writes that, by 1893, St. James “boasted 177 baptized members and operated the only parochial school in the jurisdiction.’’

The McDuffies had three children -- Crane, Annie and Rudolph. It is telling that Crane shared a name with South Florida’s presiding bishop, William Crane Gray, evidence of a bond between the black priest and the former Confederate Army chaplain.

Along with strikes and racism, McDuffie and his congregation faced the Panic of 1893, an economic collapse that triggered a five-year depression. On the plus side, cigar workers earned higher than average wages by Southern standards.

Working conditions, however, were problematic. Factories were often dirty, and operators kept the windows shut to maintain the warm, moist atmosphere needed to work the tobacco, which may be why cigar workers had the second highest mortality rate in the nation from tuberculosis, Ingalls notes. On June 8, 1898, McDuffie died of tuberculosis. He was 38 years old.

In 1899, Bishop Gray wrote to The Churchman, appealing for help for the widow and children of “the very best clergyman of the black race with whom I have ever been acquainted, the Rev. Matthew McDuffie.’’ X About the Author: Morris Kennedy, of Tampa, is a former reporter and editor who worked at the Tampa Tribune and the Tampa Bay Times. He is a long-time member of what is now St. James House of Prayer Episcopal Church. © Robert Morris Kennedy

Mission

Musical Offering to Guatemala The St. Andrew, Tampa choir headed to Central America for a musical mission. Chorister Maggie Coleman reflects on the trip, and of useful offerings in a missional setting.

I EMBARKED ON this trip as “the person who has been to Guatemala twice already,” as “the trip planner,” as “the designated interpreter,” as “the crazy girl who thought of bringing her choir to a third world country,” and lots of other titles, both self-imposed and given to me by others. I wanted to see what the Anglican Communion had to offer a visiting choir in a country where its presence is recent (last century), as opposed to the country that is the cradle of the church.

I don’t mean to say that traveling to England and singing at one of the many beautiful cathedrals in the summer is not a worthy, fulfilling trip. Preparing for, and then singing, nightly Evensong for a week is hard work. That, interspersed with touring opportunities, can be a source of great camaraderie for a choir. I recommend that every Episcopal Church choir member participate in such a trip, at least once in their life,

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DURING THIS SEASON of Lent, the 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter, our parishes nurture the soul through times of reflection and worship, while our growing parish cookbook collection offers nourishment for our physical well being.

Leek and Potato Pictured here, the St. Andrew Choir at La Merced Church. Below, the cathedral.

if their choir is ever offered the opportunity. However, this trip to Guatemala, which I had envisioned as just “something different, but still Episcopal” was so much more than I could ever have anticipated.

In looking back, I can now compare this trip not only to my experience at Winchester Cathedral with the Choir of St. Andrew’s in 2014, but also to my experience in the Dominican Republic doing the traditional mission work of construction and painting through the Diocese of Southwest Florida in the summer of 2013. I initially would not have thought to compare this trip to my

week in the Dominican Republic, but it was actually much more similar to that, than to the U.K. trip. Our interactions with the Dominicans on that trip were in order to aid them to experience a fuller worship experience by helping them to finish building their church, and by spending time to get to know them as people. Our assistance was seen as vital so that they could complete their construction project and have a solid church to serve as a house of worship, a storm shelter, and a place for community and fellowship.

What I did not realize until we were in the midst of the trip, was that a

choir can also bring something vital to a growing, newer Episcopal Church: a choir can bring its spirit and the great gift of the vast and beautiful heritage of church music. Everywhere we interacted with Episcopalians, they yearned for the gifts we brought; gifts we truly did not realize we were bringing until after they were given. In Guatemala City, the congregants were expatriates who yearned to hear music sung in four parts, as they remembered it from churches past in the U.S., Canada, Europe or elsewhere in the Americas. In Chuguexa, the congregants could neither read nor write, but had learned the melody line to hymns from our hymnal by rote, and were truly amazed and astonished to hear those same hymns sung in four parts. They had never heard music sung in four parts before!

To them, it was a sound brought to them from God, shared by brothers and sisters that did not look like they did, but who shared a communion table with them, equal before God. In Antigua, the audience at our concert was made up of expatriates, indigenous locals, Catholics, Episcopalians, and probably those who worshiped at other churches or none at all. They were brought together by the common language of music, and the need for beauty to decorate and enhance their daily lives.

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day services in a small room in a commercial building, which the church rents for use on Sundays, where we outnumbered the congregation, and we all sat around in a circle for an intimate and moving service in the heat, we brought music from Sunday school class at San Mattias, where upwards of 40 their past, or music they had children attend each week. Below, the choir and children.. of the importance of worship: never heard at all.

Please relay these few words to all It was such a simple gift to give, and didn’t require hammers, nails, paint, ex- of the participants in the Saint Andrew’s perience working with rebar, or concrete, choir visit to Guatemala. At Saint James or any of the other skills associated with we feel we have been blessed by your pres“mission work.” We didn’t bring medical ence and your voices. We loved your singsupplies or food (although we did bring ing. It brought us closer to the divine dit-shirts to the children in Chuguexa, and mension we strive to reach. We were also instruments to the children of the Orques- happy to have fostered a worship experitina). We brought ourselves, the gifts we ence for you with a Mayan K’ich’é group give our own congregations every single of Episcopalians.

I learned so much about myself and Sunday. That gift, alone, the gift of our time and talent (not our treasure), was about what I value as an Episcopalian, what was valued the most by every person as a Christian, and as a musician. I hope I have ignited a spark in at least one or with whom we interacted on this trip.

We are not world-renowned re- two other people who will want to reach cording artists. We are a church choir. out to congregations in other countries Perhaps not every church choir can sing to engage in a musical mission. X Maggie Coleman is a parishioner at our repertoire, but every church choir St. Andrew, Tampa, where her husband, speaks the language of music. Every church choir has a gift to bring to the Jeff, is senior warden. Follow her trip blog people in developing Episcopal com- at saintandrewschoir.blogspot.com munities and countries. Every church choir will grow and learn as people and as a choir from their experience of sharing these gifts with those who yearn to share the language of music with them.

Fr. Ricardo Frohmader in Guatemala City wrote us after the visit. He talked

Music

Restoration for Cathedral Organ In the space of three days in May, 2,000 organ pipes were removed from the sanctuary of St. Peter’s, packed in wooden crates and trucked off to Pennsylvania.

ST. PETERSBURG - It was the start of a major organ renewal project. The pipes will be cleaned and polished, undergo repair work and tonal regulation, and will be relacquered.

The Cathedral will rely on a piano, strings, wind instruments and small vocal ensembles during the summer.

On May 22 the Cathedral Church of St. Peter dedicated a Steinway grand, a gift of parishioner Carol Phillips. The piano, made of African mahogany, was built in 1917, considered by many to be the golden era of the Steinway, and was completely restored by Polish craftsmen.

“This is the first substantial work on the organ since it was installed in 1965, outside of the new organ console and digital voice additions that were installed in 1997,” said music director Dwight Thomas. “This summer’s work is notable because of the replacement of the antiphonal division in the back of the cathedral, which was actually pipework retained and reworked from the original 1915 Austin organ.”

One rank will be kept and repurposed. The work is being done by Patrick J. Murphy & Associates of Stowe, Penn.

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Clockwise from top: The choir loft looks bare without the pipes.The console will remain in place. At the back of the Cathedral, the 1915 antiphonal organ has been removed. Music director Dwight Thomas and Dean Stephen Morris examine the pipes as workers remove them. Above, pipes and other parts of the organ assembly are wrapped in packing paper and placed in wooden boxes for shipping.

Parish Life

Next Steps for a Priest The Rev. Everett Walk considers his next options, which include deep prayer.

ABOUT ONE YEAR ago, I began a

new journey. It is called retirement.

Don’t wait to retire until you are so “tired” you run out of energy. Don’t wait until you burn out or don’t care anymore. Many people do that. Retirement than becomes a foot in the grave. It does not have to be this way. Trust me; retirement can be an upbeat experience with plenty of opportunity. Why wait until you lose interest in what you are doing? Retirement need not be a stagnant experience designed for those who are “finished”. As one person put it to me, golf in the morning, a nice lunch after a swim, golf in the afternoon does nothing to give meaning to retirement.

Consider also that retirement may not be all about you. Part of my decision to retire was that the congregation I served I came to see needed some new blood, new energy, new ideas, younger leadership. Not that I was doing anything wrong. Certainly not because I was tired or burned out.

Quite the opposite. It was just time to give the reins to someone else for the sake of the faith community going forward. In today’s world, new ways of communicating and relating have risen and as in every generation past, there comes a time a change in leadership needs to be made. This is not negative or pejorative. Just reality. I know this is easy to say because there are certainly financial aspects to be considered. They are unique to each person and need to be worked out. But don’t lose sight of a great opportunity.

One person said to me once, “you 29

There are many opportunities to put the uniform back on. know when it is time.” I did not get it then, but I do now. You do “just know” when it is time. But this very thought is the hard part.

Do you listen to that inner voice or not?

Do you hop back into the uniforms you wear because you think that is who you really are? It becomes wonderfully clear in retirement that you are still the “you” you have always been. It becomes very clear, you are more than the collar you wear or the title people call you. This holds true for all people, regardless of the “uniform.” You have validity, integrity, God given, unique to you, that needs no external validation.

Believe it or not, that realization is very motivating. The you God created continues. And, as I have learned, due to friends I have come to know, there are many opportunities to put the uniform back on.

In this light, let me add, be careful of the need to jump back in too quickly.

I think many make an oversight here.

“I can’t take retirement” needs to be answered with the question, “Why not?”

Talk to a friend. Listen to your heart. But don’t let the anxiety of a particular mindset keep you antsy. I have felt this myself and heard many others say they do not want to jump back in too soon — if at all. Let the retirement chapter play out. Give it time.

Retirement has its own dignity and worth.

So let it play out. It is better than what you

may think. If you do jump back in, do it because of the gifts you have to offer, that someone else may benefit from. Not because you are missing something.

When I was active, I had to put energy into areas I was not gifted in. That is the way it is and must be. There is a lot that needs to be done. On the other hand, retirement is the time to put energy into where your gifts are that you may not have had the opportunity to do before. If it is writing, write. If it is mentoring, mentor. If it is grief counseling, volunteer at hospice.

Consider that there are many people out there who will benefit from the gifts you have to offer. This concept holds true even if it becomes necessary to go back to work to enhance income.

Stay centered. Develop a deep prayer life because now you have the time. God still walks with you even though you may no longer have that title that used to give you a sense of purpose and meaning. God is still with you. And when you have less gnawing at you and more time and space to think a little more softly and openly to yourself and who you really are, you will see things you may have seen before but now have time to pursue. If you like building boats, build boats! So. Go forth. Be of good cheer. Hold fast to what is good. Strengthen the faint hearted; support the weak, help the afflicted; honor everyone. Love and serve the Lord rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And be blessed. X You can follow Walk online at his website, thewonderingway.com

Travel

Christ In the Clouds The Rev. Dee Ann de Montmollin recounts a week-long holiday in the mountains where all of the families spent a week feeding their souls and living as the first Christians.

The essay is an excerpt from her two new books of sermons and essays.

THE STORY OF the Transfiguration is not unknown to any of us. We have heard it often.

The message is plain. Three solid, practical men stood on top of a mountain. It was a solid, real natural mountain of good, hard earth and rock. But they found that life on that mountain could be bathed in the glory of heaven. The light on that day was shining from a very real flesh and blood person – the Christ of God. And that same glory of God can shine on every human face and life, if we will only let it.

I saw it shine while 17 of us were together for a week at our home in the mountains of North Carolina. Our time began on Saturday, arriving in cars and planes. There were eleven young people and six adult chaperones.

On Sunday morning, we all awoke with hearty appetites: not only appetites for our stomachs but also for our senses and our souls.

We had Sunday Eucharist at our home in the mountains that morning, helping the group to see that church is made of a community of people, not necessarily a structure, even though we love our home, Church of the Annunciation. Our lessons centered around not holding grudges and fo30

View of Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina’s Black Mountain range. Photo is courtesy J. Kelley of the Soil Science Department at N.C. State. Mitchell is the highest peak in the Appalachians. at 6,684 feet. You can see more nature photos at www.flickr.com/soilscience/.

cusing in on the good in people. To be as Christ-like as possible.

Our gospel was from John 10 where it is said that Jesus came not only to give us life but the abundant life. Not a mediocre life.

Our Communion Host was made of the pancake mix we had brought and was just as holy as the Host you will receive today.

Just as we were beginning the Holy Eucharist, someone spotted a bear outside our living room window. The

young people named the bear “Jumbo” and he was a common daily sight for us in both the mornings and the evenings!

He became our beloved little teenage black bear. And the faces shone.

We began each day with what we were thankful for and giving the day to God by saying the Lord’s Prayer together in a circle. We gave praise at dinners by singing “We thank you God” to the tune of the Superman theme. And the faces shone.

We were actually in the clouds, as

bound by the love of Christ and this time together reaffirmed it when the time for departure of the first group happened. Some of the group wanted one last swim so they were in the lake by 6 am. We did not want it to end. We talked of ways to live in North Carolina. We talked of the significance of the group staying together. We talked of the importance of being a part of this Church and serving God as an acolyte.

We became like Peter wanting to build the dwellings: “Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.”

One of two of the books of essays.The first How in the world does one capture is Stories to Enlighten and the second is More Stories to Enlighten. The books are available on these same feelings ever again?

Amazon.com, where there are excerpts.

Well, it’s rather simple: we know were the disciples in the Transfigura- that in our everyday life we can be tion, when we were on top of the high- Christ-like and can act that way as we est mountain east of the Mississippi, deal with others. We want to hear, as Mount Mitchell, 6,684 feet high. Six of Christ heard from his Father, “You are our group hiked up part of the moun- my beloved, in you I am well pleased.” tain while the others of us drove to the We can all glow like Christ. We can visitor’s center and enjoyed the high al- look to see what is vital and important titude by taking a short walk to the top. in our lives and then respond.

And the faces shone.

And the faces shone. X We all felt the beauty of God’s creation swimming in the lake with big About the Author: The Rev. Dee Ann truck tire inner tubes, canoeing, peddle de Montmollin is a graduate of Yale Divinity boating or riding around in the pontoon School and Berkeley at Yale Episcopal Semiboat. We felt the thrill of excitement of nary. She has served as a rector of Episcopal a God-made natural water slide, Slid- churches in the Diocese of Southwest Florida ing Rock, and the beauty of Looking and Western North Carolina. In addition Glass Waterfalls. How exciting to walk to her Masters of Divinity degree, she also across the swinging bridge of Grandfa- holds a Masters in Mental Health Counselther Mountain knowing you are a full ing and is a licensed registered nurse. Prior mile high. And the fun and excitement to entering seminary, she was executive diof discovery of the beautiful gems and rector of Samaritan Counseling Center for rocks we found while gem mining. And the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida the faces shone. and a member of the psycho-oncology team We ate our meals together, we at the Sylvester Cancer Center at University played together, we shared, we looked of Miami Hospital. She and her husband after each other.

Phil live part of the year in Florida and part It all came together that we were of the year in North Carolina.

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Letters

Sir: My issue of the above came today and I was ecstatic!!!! You treated me as a partner of the church. You thought I might be interested in all that goes on and filled it with ‘meat’. I learned so much about the church, who is involved in what, what is going on at DaySpring and then a little about a few of the churches. I wondered how many churches were in our Diocese and found it on the bottom of page 20. I am in a continuing care retirement center, so the food pages were a bit much, but perhaps they are important to some. Thank you for the basics about our Diocese…..

Oh, and a little history of the church in Florida as well, very welcome to me…..

Virginia Bailey St. Mary, Naples

Back Issues Available Online All editions of The Southern Cross are published online, in addition to the 17,000 that go out across the Diocese of Southwest Florida.

You can find them online at episcopalswfl.org search keyword “publications” They are also available at two of the leading online magazine websites, scribd.com and issuu.com. These sites also have the annual Journal of the Diocese of Southwest Florida and Annual Convention guidebook.

Diocesan Events

JUNE - DECEMBER 2016

Worship at DaySpring

Quiet Day

A day of guided quiet reflection, sponsored by School for Ministry Development. All are welcome.

Saturday, Sept. 3, 9 a.m.-noon

Morning Prayer

Saturdays at 8 a.m.; sponsored by School for Ministry Development, all are welcome.

Sept. 10, 24; Oct. 8, 22; Nov. 5, 19; Dec. 3, 17

Leadership Training

Fresh Start Clergy Retreat

A program for newly ordained clergy and clergy serving in new calls. At DaySpring.

Friday, July 29-30

Stewardship Workshop

Diocesan Stewardship Workshop facilitated by Rick Felton, Director of The Episcopal Network for Stewardship.

Saturday, Aug. 20

Benefits and Budgeting Workshop

Review and explanation of healthcare plans and benefits offered

by Medical Trust with annual workshop on budgeting.

Tuesday, Oct. 25

Church Employee Gathering

Employees of parishes from across the Diocese are welcomed to this day of relaxation and renewal, facilitated this year by the Rev. James Reho.

Friday, Dec. 9

Youth and Camps

Monthly Holy Eucharist

First Wednesday of the month at 11 a.m; featuring priests in the Diocese. Bring a group and walk the campus in the afternoon. Lunch follows for $10; reservations 941-776-1018 Sept. 7, The Rev. Arthur Lee, Venice, Retired Clergy Chaplain Oct. 5, The Rev. Margaret Sullivan, St Mark, Venice Nov. 2, The Rev. Christian Wood, Church of the Redeemer Dec. 7, The Rev. Robert Douglas, St. Mary, Bonita Springs

Formation & Renewal

Cursillo #134

Summer Camps

Six sessions have been programmed for elementary, middle and high school students.

June 15-18 Session 1, Break Out Elementary Camp June 19-24 Session 2, Middle School Camp June 26-July 1 Session 3, High School Camp July 10-15 Session 4, Mission Camp July 17-22 Session 5, Elementary Camp July 24-29 Session 6, Youth Leadership Camp

Acolyte Festival

“A Short Course in Christian Living�, a weekend opportunity at DaySpring to grow in faith and in spirituality.

Sept. 29-Oct. 2, #134

A gathering and Holy Eucharist of youth and vergers, to celebrate and teach the skills of being an acolyte. Includes lunch. Free, at the Cathedral Church of St. Peter.

Saturday, Sept. 24

Fall Clergy Retreat

New Beginnings #60

Annual fall retreat at DaySpring; Presentation by The Rev. Andrew McGowan, Dean, Berkeley Divinity School, Yale.

Sept. 26-28

Vocation Information Dinner

Dinner and conversation for those discerning a call to ordained ministry.

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The 30th anniversary of New Beginnings in Southwest Florida. A weekend designed especially to respond to the unique challenges and concerns of youth in grades 6 to 8.

Nov. 11-13

Happening #73

Happening is a unique high school experience weekend that helps teens foster a personal more meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ.

Dec. 2-4

Events by month

Key Diocesan events for 2016 are listed below. Visit episcopalswfl.org under EVENTS tab for full list.

Clergy chaplain attendees from Southwest Florida were, from left, Diane Heydt,The Rev. Read Heydt (clergy chaplain to the Manasota Deanery),The Rev. Glad McCurtain (Clearwater), James McCurtain, Paula Gray, The Rev. Chris Gray, Rosemary Lee, Mary Howe,The Rev. Arthur Lee (Venice), Rt. Rev. Barry Howe (St. Petersburg).

June

June 15, Break Out Elementary Camp June 18, Ordination of The Rev. Chase Ackerman June 19-24 , Middle School Camp June 26-July 1, High School Camp June 29, Ordination of The Rev. Christian Wood

July

July 1, Ordination of The Rev. Daniel Lemley July 9, Ordination of The Rev. Maggie Sullivan July 10-15, Mission Summer Camp July 16, Ordination of The Rev. Robert Douglas July 17-22, Elementary Summer Camp July 24-29, Youth Ministry Leadership Camp July 29-30, Fresh Start Clergy Retreat

August

Aug. 20, Annual Stewardship Workshop

September

Sept. 3, Opening Michaelmas Term, School for Ministry Sept. 3, Quiet Day at DaySpring (with School for Ministry) Sept. 6, Convocation, Clearwater, Tampa & St. Pete Deaneries Sept. 7, DaySpring Monthly Eucharist and Lunch Sept. 7, Naples, Ft. Myers Convocation Sept. 8, Venice, Manasota Deanery Convocation Sept. 23, Baseball with the Bishop Sep. 24, Diocesan Acolyte Festival Sept. 26-28, Fall Clergy Retreat Sept. 29-Oct. 2 , Cursillo #134

October

Oct. 5, DaySpring Monthly Eucharist and Lunch Oct. 14,15, 2016, 48th Annual Diocesan Convention Oct. 25, 2016, Benefits and Budgeting Workshop Oct. 29, 2016, Daughters of the King Fall Assembly

November

Nov. 2, DaySpring Monthly Fall Eucharist and Lunch Nov. 8, Vocation Information Evening Nov. 11-13, New Beginnings #60 Nov. 17, Fall Episcopal Church Women Annual Meeting

December

Dec. 2, Happening #73 Dec. 3, Diocesan Ordinations, Cathedral Dec. 7, DaySpring Monthly Eucharist and Lunch Dec. 9, Church Employee Gathering 33

Retired Clergy Chaplains

In May, a group from the Diocese of Southwest Florida attended the triennial Church Pension Group Chaplains Conference, this year held in Vancouver, Wash. At the meeting, the Church Pension Group presented chalices to each of the gathered chaplains, made by The Chalices in Lee’s kiln.

Rev. Arthur R. Lee, who is clergy chaplain to the Venice Deanery and a potter.

The Rev. Chris Gray, Canon of Development at the Diocese, serves as chaplain to the Ft. Myers/Naples Deaneries and heads the program.

The Rev. Lee will preach at St. Thomas Chapel at DaySpring Episcopal Center on Sept. 7 at the First Wednesday Eucharist. At that service, a chalice for the Southwest Florida chaplains will be blessed.

Glancing Back

Spirit of ‘76: Presidential Visit in Bicentennial Year

THE BIG NEWS of 1976 is the Bicentennial, as colonial fever grips the nation, and the U.S. begins to escape the sadness of Vietnam and Watergate. In Florida, as Bicentennial fever explodes, the state looks forward to a visit from President Ford.

Forty years ago, President Gerald R. Ford made a Feb. 28 and 29 trip to Miami, West Palm Beach, Sarasota and Tampa. Details of the visit, including his exact itinerary, are in the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

The visit is both social and official, and includes an Episcopal flair throughout. In Miami on his Saturday arrival day, Ford hears an invocation from The Very Rev. George McCormick, Dean of the Episcopal Cathedral at a naturalization ceremony. Ford also visits the Church of Bethesda by the Sea in Palm Beach. On Sunday, Feb. 29, the Fords attend Sunday services at Sarasota’s Church of the Redeemer.

In Sarasota, the President stays at the William Getzen Residence, with press staying at the Sheraton Sandcastle and Hyatt Regency where 15 coin telephones and “2 telex” are available. The visit has a bit of celebrity excitement to it, as Ford’s son Jack is dating Ft. Lauderdale tennis sensation Chris Evert, who is playing at the Virginia Slims tennis tournament on Longboat Key. The week before, Evert and Ford had appeared in a cover feature in People Magazine.

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Above, Betty Ford and local Boy Scouts watch President Ford sign a proclamation presented to him at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport on Feb. 29. That year, many youth programs emphasized colonial history. Photo by White House in the Ford Presidential Library. At bottom, negatives in the Ford Library show Ford’s arrival at Redeemer. There was a large crowd outside the church watching the motorcade’s arrival.

sota. The official itinerary in the Ford Presidential Library says that “A full dinner service will be provided” on the press plane’s short flight. When they arrive, they are greeted by Sarasota Mayor and Mrs. Elmer Berkel and other dignitaries. President Ford is greeted at 9:25 p.m. by local citizens Mr. & Mrs. Getzen and Mr. & Mrs. Dana Rollings.

The President begins his day with tennis at Sarasota’s Field Club, where he is greeted by tennis pro John Lawrence,

and plays a game of tennis with Bill Getzen, Dana Rollings and Lawrence.

The Fords arrive at 10:55 a.m. for 11 a.m. services at Redeemer, greeted by Father Thomas Fitzgerald and Lattimer Turner, Senior Warden. The service finishes by 11:45 a.m.; the pew where they sat, which is on the right side, is marked with a plaque.

Ford later boards Air Force One to fly to the National Airlines ramp at Tampa International. X

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